Re: Recompile source after error
THANK YOU VERY MUCH Bijan!
Good and helpful guys like you make this mlist a friendly
learning environment. So newbies will not feel so pathetic and be driven
away by some unprovoked harsh words. You set a true and good example to
distinguish between a "helpful" respond and a truly helpful one. Thank
you, from me and for all newbies like me.
tong
FYI.
- I've been using Linux ever since RH6.2, and just shifted to Debian
recently.
- The reason I want to recompile Emacs is that I don't like its Windose
scrollbar behavior, and want to restore it to X-windows default, just like
what xterm's behavior. I've been doing so in RedHat ever since I lost that
feature by default.
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 23:07:31 -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> First here's the real answer to the question. There is a document
> on the debian webpage called the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide".
> It describes the basics of making a deb package. The part you want
> is the "quick rebuild" of the "build" chapter at:
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html#s-quickrebuild
>
> "6.2 Quick rebuild
>
> With a large package, you may not want to rebuild from scratch
> every time while you tune a detail in debian/rules. For
> testing purposes, you can make a .deb file without rebuilding
> the upstream sources like this:
>
> fakeroot debian/rules binary
>
> Once you are finished with your tuning, remember to rebuild
> following the above, proper procedure. You may not be able to
> upload correctly if you try to upload .deb files built this
> way."
>
> And now for the reply to the reply,
>
>> --- * Tong* <sun_tong_001@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was trying to compile the emacs from source deb package. The
>>> compilation
>>> stopped in the middle because of some error.
>>
>> Well, let' see:
>>
>> a) Why on earth are you doing this? What could "the kitchen sink" of all
>> editors possible *not* have pre-compiled into it that would cause you to
>> want to re-compile emacs? The packaged binary works wonders (if you like
>> Emacs), and there are a bazillion addons if the core-set wasn't enough for
>> you.
>
> He just wants to. Maybe he wants to add support for mongolian, or compile
> in gtk support, etc.
>
>> b) Since you don't bother saying what the errors were, how the hell can
>> anyone help?
>
> He doesn't want help with the simple error, he can fix the error, he
> wants to know how he can resume compilation without it restarting from
> the beginning.
>
>>> If I use dpkg-buildpackage, everything will be started all over again.
>>> Which command I can use to start from where I was left?
>>
>> If you are unfamiliar with compiling applications you couldn't have picked
>> a harder application.
>
> He isn't unfamiliar with compiling applications, he's unfamiliar
> with compiling debs froms source debs.
>
>>> I want to duplicate the error, fix it and continue on.
>>
>> That statement is contradictory. I suggest you install the binary, and
>> stop this idiocy.
>
> He wants to rerun the compilation from the point it failed, note the
> error, fix the error, then rerun the compilation from that point. He
> doesn't want compilation restarting each time.
>
> Bijan
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